Adobe SpeedGrade CC 2014 lets you deliver balanced color and distinctive, vibrant looks for any type of video production. Grade faster with more connected tools, over a dozen powerful new more...

What's New

Version 8.1.0 (2014.1):

Note: Please note that you must sign-in to your Adobe Creative Cloud account in order to download a demo of SpeedGrade CC 2014. If you already subscribe to Creative Cloud 2014, you can download any updates through the Adobe Application Manager.

Enhanced UI - Like other Creative Cloud video applications, this new release offers a more...

Adobe SpeedGrade CC 2014 lets you deliver balanced color and distinctive, vibrant looks for any type of video production. Grade faster with more connected tools, over a dozen powerful new features, and a redesigned interface that's both intuitive and familiar for Adobe Premiere Pro users. SpeedGrade CC gives you access to ongoing updates as soon as they're released, and integrates with other Adobe video tools for smooth start-to-finish video production. Your entire creative world, together in one place.

SpeedGrade CC 2014 is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. Sharpen your skills and master new tools with a rich library of training videos. And with Behance integration, you can share your projects and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.

Version 8.1.0 (2014.1):

Note: Please note that you must sign-in to your Adobe Creative Cloud account in order to download a demo of SpeedGrade CC 2014. If you already subscribe to Creative Cloud 2014, you can download any updates through the Adobe Application Manager.

Enhanced UI - Like other Creative Cloud video applications, this new release offers a refined new user interface with support for HiDPI displays, including Windows 8.1 systems. The color scheme is more subtle and UI elements have been simplified. For example, the Effects menu has been organized to enable easy search. To view it, click the "+" icon at the bottom of the Grading Layer panel.

Curve Adjustments - Under Curves, there are two new color tool options:

RGB Curves

Hue and Saturation Curves

You can use curve adjustments on their own, or combine them with any other grading layers, Looks, or LUTs.

Grouping Grading Layers - With the 2014.1 release, you can now collect parts of your grade (or Look) and group them together. This grouping helps to create organized complex Looks. In addition, you can adjust the opacity of a group of grades in just one step. With this enhancement, it is easy to combine multiple Looks and effects, and create a Look remix.

Support for Blackmagic cards - This feature is new in this release. SpeedGrade provides support for Blackmagic cards.

User Interface Enhancements:

Hover to preview Looks - If you hover over a Look thumbnail, you can view how that Look impacts your image in the monitor. This feature makes it easy to test and compare Looks.

Enhanced vertical sliders for luminance control - SpeedGrade provides a bigger vertical slider in addition to the existing circular luminance dial on the Look panel. This change allows in editing and viewing the color scheme changes with much more ease. You can control luminance values in the image's shadow, midtone, and highlight regions using either the dial on the color wheels or the vertical slider. Also, the other color control options are now muted in the grading panel except for the active color control option being used. However, when you click any of the color control option, the option appears bright and you can perform the desired action.

New SpeedLooks - In this release, new SpeedLooks have been added to the SpeedLooks package to provide you more out-of-the-box creative Looks. SpeedGrade sports four new SpeedLooks, giving you even more options for sophisticated color grading presets that perform well across different types of footage and lighting conditions. You can group this look with grading layers to instantly create new custom looks. SpeedLooks are available under their own tabs in the Look Manager.

Audio Support for Premiere Pro projects - Audio support is available for Premiere Pro projects in SpeedGrade. This feature allows you to hear the sound with the color. This new feature helps because soundtracks or dialog often provide cues for transitions in lighting.

Performance with masks - Performance with masks is now also improved, making it easier to work with masks in general, and multiple masks in particular. Related to this enhancement, SpeedGrade's tracking is now faster.

Improved Autosave - SpeedGrade also offers improved Autosave, both in Direct Link and in native SpeedGrade mode. This option is available in References > AutoSave to automatically save the files. The default number of saved project files is 20.

Enhanced Mercury Transmit to support output to 4K monitors - SpeedGrade has enhanced Mercury Transmit to support output to 4K monitors.

Shared memory pool with other DVA apps - SpeedGrade shares a memory pool with other DVA apps. A memory balancer prevents swapping of RAM to disk by dynamically managing the memory allocated to each of the applications. Each application registers with the memory balancer with some basic information. The information constitutes of minimum memory requirements, maximum memory able to be used, current memory in use, and a priority. The priority has three settings: low, normal, and highest.